Nikola Tesla's Life, Ideas, And Inventions

“I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own.” was a remark made by the true inventor of the AC generator-- not Thomas Edison, but Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla lived a very complicated life from start to finish, but since the beginning, he was always interested in electricity, and because of his exploration to America and his exchange of information with Thomas Edison, he went through many hardships but ended up inventing AC currents and many other things. Due to this, he was able to influence the world intellectually though his ideas and inventions, economically due to him challenging Edison and proposing the idea of free electricity, and socially because of the way his inventions stay with us today, even though barely anyone knows Tesla’s name.

Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Croatia. He began his love for inventing at an early age, inspired by his mother, who invented different appliances for her family to use. Though his father was a priest and wanted him to become one too, he continued to chase the interests, and he went to school in Austria at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz, where he graduated at the top of his class. He was brilliant from the start, finding problems with DC motors and finding ways to fix them, obsessing over his improvements for a little over half a

One of these discoveries would be the electric chair, where his electricity proved useful to the government, though somewhat controversial. This came about because Thomas Edison had once electrocuted rats using Tesla’s energy to show people that it was dangerous and make people doubt him, but the government took interest in his technology instead, giving Tesla money to make the chair and another use for his power. Another impact he made on people at the time was soon after the electric chair, where he